Guest this Thursday, February 8 of “Chez Jordan De Luxe”,
Pascal Bataille
, usually very discreet, spoke at length.
The co-host of “Only the truth that counts” on C8 spoke about his difficult relationship with his father, his various divorces, his four boys... He also revealed that he had a tumor.
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“I have had a tumor in my left ear for thirty years now. It is a benign tumor but which is still under surveillance and which has caused me a fairly significant loss of left hearing
,” he confided, specifying that he had lost
“around 75%”
of his hearing.
“The tumor is on the acoustic nerve, the nerve that transmits information to the brain
,” he added.
“I haven’t known silence since 1993”
Pascal Bataille
An illness that does not require Pascal Bataille to wear a hearing aid.
“There is not much to do since it is the nerve that is damaged, it is not the eardrum
,” he emphasized before assuring:
“I live very well with it
. ”
The only inconvenience, and not the least, is the tinnitus from which he suffers.
“I haven't known silence since 1993 because I have tinnitus all the time.
We get used to it, it's like everything, we live with it.
When I sleep, I don't hear it.
There, I hear it while I'm talking to you because I'm talking to you about it so I hear it consciously but for all these years I've been living with it but I don't know what it is. silence.
“It’s philosophically something that bothers me because silence is magnificent and I never have silence
,” he explained.
Verbose, Pascal Bataille then listed his various health problems.
“I have a small heart aneurysm which is being monitored
,” he continued.
I broke my face and my left foot, heel and ankle are in a bad state.
I'm in constant pain.
As soon as I walk too long, run or even cross-country ski, in the evening I eat
,” he concluded.